Futoshiki
The rules of Futoshiki are very simple: 1. The grid is square and can be of any size. Use numbers 1 to the size of the grid to solve the puzzle. 2. Numbers cannot be repeated in a row or…
Tag: solving technique
Odd Even Sudoku
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate this day! 🙂 As a small gift for you, I’ve prepared an odd-even sudoku variation puzzle. It’s not the first odd even puzzle I ever posted, but it is the first plain odd even…
How to solve Diagonal Sudoku X
I realize that I’ve never posted two sudoku solving techniques which are specific to Diagonal Sudoku puzzles. Here they are. Diagonal and nonet interaction This one is a simple extension of the “row/column and nonet interaction technique”. Just look at…
Twodoku
Here we go… another “classic” Sudoku that I can’t remember posting before. Twodoku is a Gattai-2 puzzle, which means that there are two overlapping Sudokus. It’s a tough one, I think. In order to solve it, you should use all…
Butterfly Sudoku
I realized that I never posted a classic Butterfly Sudoku puzzle on the main page of the website. A few of them have been posted on the Daily Sudoku Variants page, but the puzzles posted there disappear from this website…
Jigsaw Sudoku in Flower Sudoku format (5 in 1 Gattai-5)
This should be a tough one – perhaps too tough? It’s only rated “BRAIN”, but the layout makes it quite difficult, I think. 5 overlapping Jigsaw Sudoku puzzles put together in the Flower Sudoku (Gattai-5) layout, which is similar to…
Tridoku
Here is a puzzle that I think deserves a lot of attention: TriDoku! It’s a great puzzle-type but for some reason it’s very rarely seen in the Sudoku world. I want to change that! Even though it may not appear…
Introducing Slitherlink (loop the loop, takegaki, fences, dotty dilemma… you name it)
Another kind of puzzles that I’ve started creating recently… Slitherlink! These puzzles are also known under many different names. Slitherlink puzzles are not a Sudoku variant. They can be of any size and the rules are: 1. Connect the dots…
My first Nurikabe puzzle (a difficult one)
Another addition to my portfolio of various number/logic puzzles are Nurikabe puzzles. I think these puzzles are being undeservedly somewhat neglected in the puzzle world and I intend to change that. The number of solving techniques and approaches that can…
How to solve Hitori: basic techniques
Solving Hitori puzzles is about recognizing patterns. I will show you some examples of those patterns. They can be split into two groups, one of those that depend solely on the initial positioning of numbers, and another group of patterns…